Indigenated

Part of speech: verb, adjective

Definitions

1. Brought into a place and made to belong there, so that something is treated as native to that land or environment
2. Having been adopted into a region and established there as though it had always been a natural part of it
3. Settled into a locale and absorbed as if originally born there, becoming a naturalized part of that setting

Etymology: The root of "indigenated" is the Latin "indigena," meaning "native" or "born in the place," built from "indu," an old form of "in," and the root "gen-," meaning "produce" or "beget." That same root sits behind "genus," "genre," and "gene," so a native is, etymologically, someone who has been produced by a place. "Indigenated" is the past participle of the rare verb "indigenate," meaning to make native to a place or to naturalize something from elsewhere. It belongs to the same family as "indigenous," which came into English through Latin's "indigenus," and it follows the common English pattern of forming verbs from Latin nouns with "-ate." Its use stays mostly technical or literary, so readers will meet it more often in scientific or historical writing about plants, animals, or people settled in new lands than in everyday speech.